dirk strider never has to be alone ever again, he finally lives in the same physical place and time as all the people he cares about most, and all his friends and family love him very much and will take care of him and help him become the best version of himself, just as he will help all of them with the same, probably without even realizing it
if you think dirk and jade arent best friends well. heh. youre just wrong
jade dirk and terezi regularly commit crimes together and thats just the truth
“wow dirk how come your mom lets you have TWO girlfriends??” “Actually, they’re dating each other. They just like to solicit me to run around and commit felonies with them”
dirk strider, jade harley, terezi pyrope: enemies of the state
I think fandom overcomplicates itself by focusing on fandom understanding tropes like “explicit endgame canon”, instead of just…looking at the members of a narrative as people, and taking in what a story shows us their lives are. Like, in [S] Credits, we can say Dirk and Jake’s regular, every day lives involve…
-Living together, where Jake will casually interrupt Dirk’s work to hold him close for pictures to loved ones. Building incredibly ambitious and time consuming engineering projects together, too, btw.
-Being comfortable enough with each other to have spar fights that Dirk can be cocky and arrogant in, when the last time we saw Dirk before then he was worried he was a completely toxic element in Jake’s. Which implies they worked that stuff out in the meantime!
-Wearing flower crowns together, implying they’ve worked together to overcome the toxic elements of masculinity that kept them apart in the first place.
Plus there’s still the looming masterpiece, Jake has a tantrum to save Dirk’s life where Dirk is described as Jake’s “prettyboy ninja stud”.
My answer is that I don’t think it matters very much whether you want to see them as close friends who are living together or romantic partners. They choose to share more of their intimate and private lives with each other than anyone else.
They are clearly invested in having A relationship, and given how explicitly horny both men
(and that’s what they are–the cast is 21 now, let’s not forget)
are in general and how deep their affections for each other run, I don’t even see what would separate their close friendship from a romance anyway.
homestucks narrative clearly wants us to consider that Dirk and Jake are still together and quite close by [s] credits. That’s canon enough for me. You’re going to have to specify your doubts if you want me to speak to them, because I honestly can’t really relate to the section of fandom doubtful about the “status” of their relationship anymore, whatever that means.
Those of you who remember being in the Homestuck fandom back in 2012 to 2013 will no doubt remember the old Tumblr post that went around claiming the four post-scratch kids were like the noble gases due to their supposed inability to form bonds with each other. All too often I’ve seen this ancient piece of fanon used to support the idea that the alpha kids are not as close a group of friends as the beta kids are, and that somehow this makes them less likeable or worth paying attention to as the Acts 1-5 faves the original Homestuck fans knew and loved.
However, I have a proposition for any still listening out here, one that could turn the concept of “alpha kids as noble gases” on its head. What if I told you that the initial premise was false, but the conclusion was true? Leaving aside the individual identifications of each kid with a particular gas, let us concern ourselves with the four as a group.
Flying through Storytelling 